Colorful Christmas pasta

Colorful Christmas pasta in the shape of stars and fir trees

Colorful Christmas pasta from Schaut is egg pasta in festive shapes—stars, fir trees, and comets—red from tomato, green from spinach, and natural from the egg. Handmade in a small factory on the edge of the Swabian Jura, they are a cheerful greeting for the Advent season.

Colorful Christmas pasta is handmade egg pasta from the Schaut pasta factory in Andelfingen, extruded through bronze dies into stars, fir trees, and comets. Their colors come from tomato and spinach powder, not from a dye pot. Made with 35 percent fresh egg and durum wheat semolina, they create a plate that looks like Christmas all on its own.

Stars, fir trees, and comets on the plate

On the Christmas table, the pasta glows in red, green, and golden yellow, shaped into stars, little fir trees, and comets with tails. No two plates look the same because the shapes tumble together in a colorful mix. Adults secretly enjoy it too, even if they don’t always admit it.

Tomato powder is added to the red dough, spinach powder to the green, and the light-colored ones remain natural from the egg. No artificial dyes, just what nature provides. The bronze dies give the shapes their fine, rough surface, which helps the sauce stick.

The dough contains 35 percent fresh egg and durum wheat semolina, as with all Schaut pasta. After 10 to 12 minutes, the shapes are cooked through while remaining firm, hearty, and festively colorful without ever getting mushy. Each shape is individually extruded through the bronze die, which is evident in these little stars and fir trees.

A little bit of Christmas on the plate

Christmas pasta is for those days when the meal deserves to be a little festive. Whether on the children’s table on Christmas Eve, as a side dish for the feast, or as a small gift during Advent. Whether you serve it for a feast or hide it as a surprise, it brings color into the dark season.

The colorful shapes don’t need a heavy sauce; they are the eye-catcher themselves. A little melted butter with nutmeg, grated cheese, or a light tomato sauce is perfectly sufficient. Children often fish the stars out of the pot before they are even served. Just imagine the little ones at the table searching for their favorite star—that’s part of the holiday tradition.

As an edible Advent gift, the pasta is just as delightful in a package as it is on the plate. Those giving gifts often like to add the colorful lucky pasta for the new year. Simply put a few varieties together, tie a ribbon around them, and the gift is ready. A 300-gram pack is enough for two to three servings, turning a simple pasta dish into a small celebration.

Hand-extruded in Andelfingen

In the small pasta factory, Brigitte Schaut extrudes the dough through bronze dies—natural, red, and green—until stars, fir trees, and comets emerge. The family has been making pasta here since 1993, starting with eggs from their own farm in a garage they had converted on the fly.

From these small beginnings, it grew into a factory with a "transparent" production area, where the third generation is now at work. In 2013, an extension with its own sauce kitchen was added. The dough dries slowly, depending on the weather, following the motto "Time for something special"; the family makes over twenty types of pasta this way.

The eggs come from the nearby Untermarchtal monastery, and the durum wheat semolina comes from France because it makes the pasta heartier. In addition to the Christmas pasta, you will find other Schaut pasta specialties and more fresh pasta in our shop. It’s a piece of Swabia for your Christmas table. That’s what anticipation tastes like.